Quoggling Sand

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: My dietary preferences have evolved over time, with a few caveats, may as well save this in the pile of lifetime receipts… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoAI DisclosureUnless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human. Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The one where I finally get to Silicon Valley and have an opportunity to work at Apple Computer Corporation, but it is as a contractor, and it is as a Tester. The proverbial foot in the door, to be sure… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoKatamari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KatamariAI DisclosureUnless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human. Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I learned what a Tiger Team is, in the tech product development sense, during an interview at Yahoo! and it turns out that I was probably a part of some sort of Tiger Team for a long time before and even after… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoTiger Team on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_teamAI DisclosureUnless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human. Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I traveled quite a bit on behalf of my employer at the time these two events took place, and yet these two events took place in the SF Bay Area. Both of them. Crazy. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A startup you have never heard of named after something you have never known the name of, a Silicon Valley Tale. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoDefinition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motive%20power

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I checked this book out in audio form from the digital counter at my local library countless times, I find it fascinating for reasons I cannot quite explain, though it was quite popular with a great many people. So I will try to explain anyway. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoKitchen Confidential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_ConfidentialBourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56645907-bourdain

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One of the big milestones, or at least it used to be. No more true than it was in the US, cars and driving them represents a form of freedom, to go where we will. Or something like that. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Once upon a time there was no internets for normal people to visit and abuse, or be abused by, and then there was. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I was watching a YouTube Video about Individuation and began to see some familiar notions, this is probably a concept I am living. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoThe YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvvlxg11pMIndividuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way, way, way back in the day, the web was new, html was weird, and it was indeed the Wild Wild West. Hand-coding web pages was the way. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoWayback ReallyCool https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/http://reallycool.com

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Def Leppard Hysteria Tour was something of a big deal back then, so why not go to see them when they were in Phoenix in August, 1988? Why not indeed… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoHysteria Tour https://www.deflepparduk.com/tour19882.htmlCompton Terrace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Terrace

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A term of art, when one lives on a phone, especially a phone under active development at a place like Apple or Palm, one uses said phone for real, even if it has all of the bugs. Living on a phone might also happen when the laptop stays in the bag while traveling, for another example. As it happens, I have done both… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: History is one of those topic areas where you do not need to be an expert, you don’t even need to take classes, all anyone really needs is a library card, and that might not even be true anymore (though you should still have a library card). So what is a Thucydides Trap and are we in the Fourth Turning? LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoThucydides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThucydidesThe Thucydides Trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_TrapDestined for War… by Graham Allison https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/31125556-destined-for-warStrauss-Howe Generational Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theoryThe Fourth Turning is Here by Neil Howe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Turning_Is_HereThe Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by Neil Howe and William Strauss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Turning

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: To avoid special characters in the title, the simple version, but is it a resume, a resumé, or maybe a résumé? Whatever the case, I think we should be done with them… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoResume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9The CV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_vitae

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Pilot or Engineer, Engineer or Pilot, it came down to glasses and the way the US Air Force worked at the time, so engineering it was and is, and now purveyors of AI want you to believe pursuit of engineering and technology is not worthwhile. Hmm. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I did not focus too much on history electives while I was in college, and while it would have been nice to have time for more, history is one of those things that can be tasted, at least, with reading and taking in modern day media productions by subject matter experts. I took the History of European Unification and it was pretty interesting. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoHistory of the European Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you know a young person who is building robots or embedded systems or 3d-printed items or any number of other possibilities nobody had thought of, it is likely they are doing it standing on the shoulders of Arduino in one way or another. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoArduino https://www.arduino.cc/Starbucks in Italy (bonus) https://about.starbucks.com/stories/2026/take-a-tour-of-starbucks-coffeehouses-in-italy/

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Surely there are many options we come upon through our times, to go this way or that, or maybe a third and more options to select from. However, there is the one big selection, to the left or to the right, that we could probably identify if we really thought about it, and so I have. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I think at this point most people in the US have at least one Smart Card in their pocket, or somewhere near, but back in the day they were more a European thing, and a brand new notion here, and so I was working in that space for a minute… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoISO 7816 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7816

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have been in the general tech arena for over 30 years now, and I have to say, This AI Thing does not give me a good feeling. I have opinions. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I did not become interested in, nor participate in, Chiropractic for any holistic leanings, but for a car accident when I was in the seventh grade. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A practice more commonly known as ghosting to most, for the nerds among us the nodes in our network might respond, they might not, so what to do about the latter… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have been seeing articles floating around about the end of The Mall in the US, which of course leads to reflection on my own Mall experiences, domestic and otherwise. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoParamus Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramus_ParkMetro Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrocenter_(Phoenix,_Arizona)Christown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christown_Spectrum_MallSantana Row https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_RowMeadows Mall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadows_MallFashion Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_Show_Las_VegasHorton Plaza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Plaza_(shopping_mall)Dubai Mall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Mall

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Today is the day, every year, when people are so clever and also so oblivious that the world actually rotates a bit more slowly than normal. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoApril Fools’ Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Between Silicon Valley tours, during my respite in Phoenix, I picked up a new skill that has been with me ever since. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoPostgreSQL Project Site https://www.postgresql.org/

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a substantial window of time where I could not imagine cooking anything more complicated than a sandwich, today I cannot easily imagine eating food prepared in a restaurant. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I had just moved back to Silicon Valley for my second tour, I was not fitting in with Salon, so it was time to jump outside the box. Would it be video résumés? LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I find I am shaking my head more and more lately, maybe a little look back at some of the milestones I have been around for, or my recollections, would be a good thing? LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Assumption is easy, Presumption takes a little bit more effort, or maybe awareness, but often presumption is merely assumption with bad information. So true. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Networking is one of those things that people do every day, whether for business or whatever else. I used to be good at it, now I am not so sure. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have always been fascinated by these, the way things work in a stream, and while I am no expert, I think I see them as though I am. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am sort of wishing that I had started with the Random Bits 00 binary title numbering now. but as I am feeling ill this morning, I will hope that you, like me, are not really thinking about that one. On with the show… some random recollections strung together for our pondering. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a time when we all had one, they used to be the end all and be all of employment, where are we today? Hopefully we have moved past this era… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have had a mix of working situations, from hourly to full time to consulting to entrepreneur, and while the latter is my favorite of late, consulting can be something else… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I talk about this a lot on my FFS Talk audio program, the various points of view we can find online and how informed they may or may not be, and the impact some have via so-called influencers. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: CES 2026 is in effect this week in Vegas, I think this makes thirteen for me, and while the show floor opened yesterday, I am going to head down there today, Wednesday, to Eureka Park, the only part of the show I find valuable. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another Eve of the New Year has arrived, I have been around for a few at this point, here are a couple of interesting recollections… LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not a retrospective of stories told, but the year gone by, and what might come of it, maybe. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Probably not literally idiosyncrasies, surely others will have similar traits and others mingled in some combination, but sometimes I think about these and make some connections of my own, here is part 2. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Maybe not literally idiosyncrasies, surely others will have similar traits and others mingled in some combination, but sometimes I think about these and make some connections of my own, here is part 1. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoIdiosyncrasy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiosyncrasy

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Restaurants are fine, I was once a nearly-exclusive patron of any number of them, barely cooking at home. Over the years, especially recently, that has flipped almost entirely, and I think it is unfortunately obvious why. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoKitchen Confidential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Confidential

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Social Media and worse, Social Networking, have become completely corrupt and empower laziness and contempt and worse, all for the sake of platform owners and profit. Luckily, we still have email and a few other things from the good old days, and I am not alone is thinking we should be swinging back in that direction. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoSocial Networking Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_serviceSocial Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mediaDead Social Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_servicesUsenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UsenetIRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCBBS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_systemEnpoopification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Before I went off to college I had a pretty simple menu of food items on my goto list. Working at McDonald’s and Fuddruckers didn’t help so much, and I really didn’t branch out until my final year at Mudd, but then we did. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoSanamluang cafe https://sanamluangcafe.com/

Show NotesHost: Dan HugoSummary: Gaming, the playing of computer games on high performance computer hardware, drives technology in some ways, and undoes society in others. I am merely a spectator.LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 17 I talked about Building Things, today as we end Season 1 and jump next week into Season 2, is a great day to talk about Systems. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoSystems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemLaplace Transforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every once in a while I look around at things like accomplishment and interestingness, and sometimes I look back for those things, and there are a few, which you will learn about now. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Still a lot of stuff going on day-to-day lately so how about another unstructured wander through time and notions to satisfy today’s curiosities, a follow-on to Episode 0098. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show NotesHost: Dan HugoSummary: I cannot say that I am a true believer that anyone can be self-taught, but I do okay most of the time, and I like to know everything if possible, about everything.LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugoAutodidactism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutodidacticismPolymath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolymathDunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effectFlipped Classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroomBloom’s Taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all seen the memes, about how young people today would not have survived what we went through, the norms and expectations what they were then versus now. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who among us doesn’t remember high school chemistry class back in the day? Do they still have that? I always liked lab classes for chemistry, physics, biology, and later engineering and more of those pure sciences. LinksQuoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo